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  • Man charged in South Austin carjacking

    Austin Police have charged a man after they say he and a juvenile suspect carjacked a woman in south Austin. Police say on May 16, a woman was washing her White Infiniti G37 Sport Coupe in a car wash bay in the 6700 block of South Congress Ave when she was approached by two men. Police say 18-year-old David Eduardo Martinez, armed with a gun and a juvenile suspect, armed with a drill, ...

  • Lawmakers could face special session Lawmakers could face special session

    AUSTIN (KXAN) - One week to go, and the current Texas legislative session will be finished. But that does not mean lawmakers will go home for the summer. All eyes are on Gov. Rick Perry. He could call a "special session" for anything from tax relief to transportation. "Traffic is insane all the time, said Jennifer Hogan, as she sat at a stoplight on the access road of Interstate 35 ...

  • Dell again asks investor for more info on buyout proposal

    Dell Inc. is once again asking investor Carl Icahn for more information on his latest proposal to take control of the Round Rock computer maker.Icahn on May 9 made public the outlines of a plan to offer shareholders a special dividend of either $12 in cash or an equal amount of Dell ...

  • Zact The best no-contract wireless plan yet

    Is owning a smarthpone smart if the monthly bills put you in the poorhouse? Not so much. Thankfully, a growing number of upstart carriers are trying to make smartphone pricing cheaper and more manageable.Republic Wireless, for example, offers service for just $19 per month, and as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, you ...

  • Retiring boomers driving sales of small businesses

    Baby boomers preparing for retirement are driving a surge in small business sales, as they find more potential buyers confident enough in the improving economy to expand their own businesses through acquisitions.In the first three months of the year, the number of sales that closed jumped 56 percent from the same time in 2012, according to BizBuySell.com, an online marketplace for small ...


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Movie Review

Silver Bullet [DVD]

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf was always one of the prolific novelist's slightest works, a short, readable-in-one-sitting novelette constructed as a series of 12 episodes in which a werewolf terrorizes a small American town, with each one corresponding to a month of the year. With a punchy, present-tense prose style and almost no characterization, the best thing about it were the gra ... ...

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  • Neighbor attacked with knife garden hoe

    Saturday morning had all the elements of an action movie for East Austin resident Nikesha Roberts. There was yelling, swearing, a death threat, a garden hoe, a kitchen knife and -- in the end -- an arrest. The morning started smoothly enough. Roberts was out in front of her home on Colony Park Drive with Teria Tucker, a family member, doing some yard work. According to an affidavit later ...

  • Lewis has mixed results in second rehab start

    Currently on a Minor League rehab assignment, Colby Lewis hasn't pitched in the big leagues since last July. (AP) FRISCO, Texas -- Colby Lewis breezed through the first two innings of his rehab start for Double-A Frisco on Monday, retiring all six batters he faced, striking out three of them. The third inning, however, proved much more troublesome for Lewis, who gave up a leadoff home run ...

  • More reverse mortgage lending options on tap for retirees

    Senate Joint Resolution 18 would amend the Texas Constitution to authorize the Reverse Mortgage for Purchase program and would enhance consumer disclosure requirements for all reverse mortgage loans in Texas. The Texas House has approved legislation that would expand the scope of reverse mortgage lending in the state to the benefit of retirees, its supporters claim. Senate Joint Resolution 18 ...

  • Lawmaker Emerging Tech to get $50 million

    The Texas Emerging Technology Fund will get $50 million to continue operations as part of a budget deal, state Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, said Monday.Gov. Rick Perry requested $69.5 million for each of the next two years, but negotiations between legislative leaders and the governor's office reduced that to $50 million over two years, according to Pitts, who is chairman of the House ...

  • Lawmakers restore $4 billion in education cuts

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he'll call a special session of the Legislature if they don't pass several key bills. Texas House and Senate budget leaders have reached an agreement to restore about $4 billion of the $5.4 billion in cuts made to public education last session. Though the amount falls short of a complete restoration, Democrats proclaimed the compromise a hard-fought victory ...

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